Reports trickled in all weekend from search aircraft flying over the Indian Ocean and satellite images that spotted objects floating on the sea where missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is believed to have disappeared. But as of Monday afternoon, search crews ...

Oscar Pistorius has built a powerhouse legal defense team that features two of the most dogged defense attorneys in South Africa who have a history of taking on and winning high profile cases. Kenny Oldwadge, who briefly took the reins today from lead ...

Oscar Pistorius' slain girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp told the Blade Runner in text messages that she was "scared" of him at times, going so far in one text that his temper has made her "scared out of my mind," according to testimony in Pistorius' murder trial ...

A Lord's Resistance Army expert says the U.S. government's decision to deploy military aircraft could be "the decisive game changer" in the hunt for fugitive LRA leader Joseph Kony. Kasper Agger of the Enough Project said on Monday that the aircraft will ...

Oscar Pistorius once went into "code red and combat mode" when he mistook noise from his washing machine as an intruder, a gun expert who had done business with Pistorius told the Blade Runner's murder trial today. Sean Patrick Rens, a firearms service ...

The mother of Oscar Pistorius' slain girlfriend made a rare appearance in court today, but had to leave after seeing pictures of Pistorius smeared with her daughter's blood. Pistorius paused on his way into court today for the third week of his murder trial to nod ...

A prominent Russian TV presenter is getting a lot of attention in foreign media for warning that Russia could nuke the US into oblivion. Dmitry Kiselyov hosts an influential Sunday evening program on the main state-owned channel and last night he posed in ...

A deadline fast approaching, President Barack Obama is seeking to ease the logjam in elusive Mideast peace talks and keep Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from walking away, despite few signs that either Palestinians or Israelis are prepared to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized Crimea as a "sovereign and independent country" Monday, just hours after the strategic Black Sea peninsula declared it had broken away from Ukraine. The moves triggered the toughest Western sanctions ...

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner is focusing on two widely separated quadrants, one in the Malacca Straits off the west coast of Malaysia and the other hundreds of miles away in the northern Bay of Bengal, a U.S. official said today.

A satellite communications company said today that the missing Malaysia Airlines plane contacted its network on the day it disappeared in what could turn out to be a big break in the effort to locate the jetliner or determine where it went. Inmarsat, a British ...

A U.N. investigation of human rights abuses in Central African Republic launched Monday in a bid to head off possible genocide. The chair of the investigation, Bernard Acho Muna, a lawyer from Cameroon who was deputy chief prosecutor for the ...

The Fox TV network says President Barack Obama will introduce the debut episode of the science series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey." The 13-part program is a reboot of astronomer Carl Sagan's groundbreaking 1980 "Cosmos" series. It debuts 9 p.m. ...

Saudi Arabia identified the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group along with al-Qaida and others Friday, warning those who join them or support them they could face five to 30 years in prison. A Saudi Interior Ministry statement said King Abdullah approved ...

When it comes to memorable defenses, "Oscar Pistorius screams like a woman," may be right up there with the infamous "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" from the O.J. Simpson trial. In the first week of Pistorius' premeditated murder trial in Pretoria, South Africa ...

State prosecutors in the murder trail of Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, called a friend of the paralympian to the stand to tell about an incident just before the killing when Pistorius allegedly shot off a gun in a ...

Oscar Pistorius covered his ears today as his attorney challenged a witness, at one point arguing that his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp could not have screamed after Pistorius fired a first shot through a bathroom door because that shot likely struck her in the ...

If you mashed up the empathetic operating system from the movie "Her" and the crime fighting car from the TV show "Knight Rider," you might get something that resembled CarPlay. Apple announced today at the Geneva International Motor Show that Ferrari, ...

Global stocks fell sharply on rising tension over Russia's military advance into Ukraine and the threat of possible sanctions by Western governments. Treasurys and gold prices rose as investors bought safer assets. KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's ...

Claims surface that Russian forces have secured an airport in the Crimea region of Ukraine. VIDEO: President Obama warned Russian President Vladmir Putin not to make a move. Threat of Military Intervention in Ukraine ...